ENG 101 FINAL

Kangil Heo

Dr. Smith

Eng 101        

When I first signed up for this course, I thought this course would be another typical writing course, however it was not. This whole course revolved around one main topic which was food.  Even our book was on food, called Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser and the whole class was about writing and learning about food. I personally thought this course was very interesting because I am majoring in nutrition and this course helped me to explore my major in depth and most importantly, write about it. During the course of this class, I learned a lot of important things such as, learning more about my major, and realizing my strengths and weaknesses as a researcher and a writer. This course was a lot more interesting than I first thought it would be and I gained a lot of new knowledge taking this course.

The main theme of this course was about food.  As I stated in Blog#2, “Food is a very important tool in changing your physique and improving your overall health. Depending on how much food you eat or the number of calories you consume, you can lose weight, gain weight, or maintain your current weight.” I learned how food plays an important role in the body and how food companies try to take advantage of the people. For example, as I stated in Blog#8, “The government needs to step in and start regulating advertising of unhealthy food directed at children. The food industry uses smart marketing techniques to manipulate and take advantage of children. This is a serious problem to the children’s health and cannot be stopped even with the parent’s regulation over their child.” There are a lot of other things I learned including the bad side of fast food, animal abuse, to how Americans spend most of their food budget on processed foods. Because of this course, I am now more cautious of my food intake and my health in general.

Before taking this course, I didn’t know how to properly write an essay let alone how to properly write a research paper. However, now I can do both properly and got to write about food at the same time. While taking this course, I also realized my own strengths and weaknesses when it comes to writing. I feel like one of my major weaknesses when it comes to writing is, to start writing. I have a lot of trouble coming up with examples in the beginning because I need to organize everything in my head before I start writing anything. One of my major strengths is that once I am organized and have my examples, I can keep writing and keep my paper organized throughout the whole paper. Also, one the important things I learned were how to cite my sources and learned that I need to cite all facts that are not common sense. This course helped me to become an overall a better writer and now I feel like I can do well in other writing courses as well.

This course was very interesting and fun. The main theme of food was also very fun to learn as it relates to my major. Also, learned a lot about food especially fast food and how unhealthy it is. And learned how to actually write a paper and a research paper properly also realizing my weaknesses and strengths. I feel like this course will definitely play a role in my future as I learned more about food and wrote about it. I learned and gained a lot from this course and would not mind taking this course again.